All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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